Magazine for repeating firearms



www r. E'. LODETTI.`

MAGAZINE FR RBPEATING FIREARMS. No.' 545,512.l

Patented ,SeptI 8 nim,

UNITED STATES PATENT GFF-ren.

FRANK EMILIUS LoDE'r'rI, or RONDOUT, NEW YORK.

MAGAZINE FORMREPEATING FIREARMS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent-No. 545,512, dated September 3, 1895.

Application led November 2, 1894. Serial 110.527.711. (No model..`

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRANK EMILIUS Lo- DETTI, a subjectof .the King of Italy, and a resdentof Rondout, countyof Ulster, and State of New York, have invented certain new -and useful Improvements in Magazines for its object to provide a simple, cheap, readilyconstructed,and perfectly-operating devic of this character, by means of which two or m re rows of cartridges may be held in the magazine and automatically carried 'to thelevel of the breech, a further object of theinvention being to provide such a device as will enable the firearm upon'which it is applied to be used as a single-loading arm.

The invention consists in the novel construction and l arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described. l

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a longitudinal central section of the magazine of a ride embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same. Fig. 3 'is a vertical cross-section taken upon the line a;

' Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a plan view of the spring which forces thecartridges upwardly. Fig. 5 is a-A side elevation ofa device which I use for Y Holding the cartridges as they are inserted in same.

the magazine. Fig. 6 is an end view of the Fig. 7 is a plan view thereof. In the practice of my invention I form in the gun A a magazine A of the usual or any other desired form and of a width to hold two or more rows of cartridges, preferably having a base A2, securedremovably beneath the same by means ofthe screw a for greater convenience of accessfrom the bottom. Within the magazine is a pieta-spring B, secured at one'end by means of screws b to the forward endof themagazine, having at the opposite end thereof a pivot ortrunnion c, from the center of which depends a hook d. "Pivoted upon the trunnion c is a plate-fC, dividedlon -gitudinally to form two integral sections concaved to receive the lower cartridges therein,

one ofthe said sections C being depressed to upon its lower face similarly to the `p1ate'C,

in order to hold the cartridges in the position shown in Fig. 3, whereby one o t the same is always. higher than the others. This strip has upon the top thereof a handle E, and depending from the same are side pieces or su p'- ports c e at each end `thereof", curved upwardly at the ends, the supports on one side being elevated abovethe level ot 'those upon the other side to conform to the concavities in the strip E. l Upon the usual boltF of vthe gnnI secure a hook or catch f, which engages with the head of the cartridgefin the barrel, and when the arm hasbeen discharged and the bolt is dra-wn back the cartridge-shell -is carried with it.

The operation of the device willbe readily understood from the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings. The cartridges having previously been placed. in the ,receptaclebetween Ithe strip 'E and the supports e and c', the breech is opened'and therreceptaele with the cartridges therein placed in the magazine and ditiously in the magazine, I have constructed a receptacle comprising a strip E, concaved the'receptacle'thereupon slipped 0E the cax` wardly until the topmost one thereof is inv substantial alignment with the barrel, whereupon the bolt is forcedforwardly to bring the said cartridge in place. When' the firearm has been discharged, this operation is re peated and the cartridges are taken alternately from the right and left hand rows and Ainserted into'place, this arrangement of the 'cartridges being, so far as I am aware, a broadly novel means whereby a considerable number of the same may be heldin a comparatively` small Vertical compass. The springs D not only prevent too great upward movementof the cartridges, but also serve to direct the same, as best shown in Fig'. 2, one' of the said springs always bearing upon the uppermost cartridge.

lShould it be desired to u se the firearm as a single-loading gun, the plate Cv may be held downwardly against the spring D by means of a bolt g, beneath the same, having a stud g thereon sliding in a slot h in the base A2 of the magazine, at the forward end of which hol-t is a button g2,projecting through a somewhat more. elongated slot h' in the base. Rearward of the boltgis a spiral spring i,

mounted in the wall of the magazine and caus-v ingmthe bolt to be normally projected forwardly. Vihen the button g2 is pressed back, 'the catch or hook d upon the spring B falls beneath the same, and, the button being released, the boltl engageswith the-said hook and holds the plate C and the spring Bdownwa-rdly out of active engagement with the cartridges.

,The advantages resultant from the use of my.. invention will be manifest to all who'are conversant with the general class of devices to which the same appertains.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure 'by Letters Patent, is

1I A magazine for repeating tire arms', comprising a body of suflicient width to receive two or more rows of cartridges therein, a platespringsecured to the base thereof beyond its main body,'a'plate pivoted to the free end of vthe said spring, and depressed longitudinally at one side to hold the rows of cartridges at unequal heights, spx-in gs secured tothe magazine at each side near the top thereof and bent downwardly, a catch depending from the plate spring, a normally projected bolt sliding i-n the base of the magazine, and a button upon the said bolt, whereby the same may be slid backwardly or caused to engage the catch, substantially as shown and described.

2. A magazine for repeating fire arms, having va plate spring secured to the base thereof beyond its main body, a plate pivoted to the.

free end of the said spring at the bottom of the magazine to force the cartridges upwardly, a catch 'depending from the spring, a bolt sliding in the base of the magazine, a spring at the rear of the said bolt to hold the same normally forward, and a button upon the said bolt, whereby the same may be slid backvivardlyor caused to engage the catch, substantially as shown and described. l

3. A magazine for repeating tire arms comprising a body of sulhcient width to receive therein two or more rows of eartridges,a plate spring secured to the base thereof beyond its main body, a plate pivoted to the free end of the said spring at the bottom of the magizine lto force the cartridges upwardly, the said plate being longitudinally concaved and bent downwardly at Ione side to hold the rows at unequal heights, springs secured near the top of the magazine at each side thereof and bent downwardly to bear upon theA cartridges to maintain the same in place and to guide the same into the barrel, a catch pivoted to the plate spring at the bottom, a bolt havingstuds thereon working in slots in the magazine base,

a spiral spring behind the bolt to force the FRANK EMILIUS LODETTI. Vitnesses:

CHARLES Moons,

HARRY CLIFFORD THOMAS. 

